Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 607 - 251: News from Two Worlds

Chapter 607: Chapter 251: News from Two Worlds

In the beginning, Lu Xuanyu couldn’t even believe that a major capitalist like Xiang Shan had spare time to pay attention to his self-operated media.

However, after spending a few weeks together, Lu Xuanyu started to feel that he and Xiang Shan might actually be considered friends.

Xiang Shan was unpretentious and spoke casually. Yet, people didn’t feel disrespected by him.

He would clarify risks and benefits for Lu Xuanyu at various times, always keeping Lu Xuanyu’s safety in mind. He also respected Lu Xuanyu’s pursuits.

At least, Lu Xuanyu believed that the Xiang Shan he was conversing with was "sincere."

Moreover, to take a step back, it wasn’t likely that Lu Xuanyu had become a friend of Xiang Shan’s. But as Xiang Shan had mentioned before, Lu Xuanyu was now one of the most important projects for their enterprise.

The day Lu Xuanyu arrived in Beiping, Xiang Shan personally took him around the medical center.

In that sense, Xiang Shan should come to visit him when he woke up.

Today, Lu Xuanyu even saw several media outlets interviewing outside the hospital room.

According to Xiang Shan’s method, it seemed normal for him to come and expand his influence at this time.

Florence blinked, "Oh, right. I forgot to mention. After observing signs of your awakening, I notified the boss. The boss asked me to convey his congratulations to you."

Lu Xuanyu felt this remark somewhat insincere. Ms. Florence was a meticulous person, and he didn’t believe she would forget her boss’s instructions.

He asked, "Um... is Mr. Xiang dealing with something?"

"A bit of an accident," Florence said, "Not something good. But it’s not work-related, it’s... some personal matter. The boss is probably in Africa now."

"Personal matter..." Lu Xuanyu scratched his head. He found it hard to imagine what kind of "personal matter" could disrupt a major capitalist like Xiang Shan. He understood even less why Xiang Shan would have "personal matters" in Africa.

However, Mrs. Florence seemed reluctant to discuss this issue. She felt it was inappropriate to gossip about Xiang Shan’s personal affairs.

Lu Xuanyu learned about the incident several days later from the news.

For someone of Xiang Shan, Yawgmoth’s stature, many media sources were watching. Unless controlled deliberately, their every move in public could become valuable material for the media.

The news wasn’t very long. It mentioned, among others, that Xiang Shan, Yawgmoth, and several core members of Superman Enterprise attended the memorial service for a linguist, with Xiang Shan personally delivering the eulogy.

This linguist had unfortunately died in an upheaval in Africa. It was unclear why he had connections with so many influential figures.

Many media were watching this deceased linguist, hoping to dig up some gossip about the big shots.

Lu Xuanyu jumped around several "related links" before he found the cause of the linguist’s death.

At the time Lu Xuanyu was unconscious, Africa had plunged into chaos again. This time, a small country erupted into war.

The cause of the war was baffling.

The African nation had been colonized by Europeans two hundred years ago. Back then, the native people only knew of ’tribes’ and ’villages.’ But the Europeans introduced their invented trash from Europe—a concept called ’nation.’ The colonizers, based on their experiences, registered the natives as two different nations.

The basis for this division was nothing more than ’facial-reading’ concepts—such as the distance between eyes or the height of the nose bridge.

When these ’nations’ were first recorded, there weren’t many differences between them; even some relatives were separated due to minor facial differences.

However, as time passed, huge disparities accumulated between the two ’nations.’

And these disparities turned into hatred.

In that country, every adult was teaching children that those who had different eyebrows, eyes, or noses were not human, they were bloodless, tearless demons.

The language was even altered as a result. Even though the two nations spoke the same language a hundred years ago, today, their languages had almost morphed into two separate systems.

Finally, they started killing each other—despite these ’nations’ only having been created a little over a hundred years ago.

The linguist was conducting field research in that country at the time. He didn’t really need to involve himself in such events. His residence wasn’t far from the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. He was simply conducting research in a refugee camp started by the United Nations.

But the linguist, overestimating his abilities, tried to shelter a group of children. In the end, he died from a stray bullet.

The news mentioned that the linguist’s will was to donate his body to scientific research.

Lu Xuanyu flipped through the news again. The recipient of the donation was indeed Transhumanism International Corporation.

"This little day..." Lu Xuanyu glanced at the photo of the linguist, "A Japanese who led a fine life, turned out to be quite the man."

Lu Xuanyu felt, if he were in the same situation, he might not make the same choice.

No... perhaps he was not even as good as he had been years ago. After the close encounter with an overloaded truck, he didn’t possess the limitless courage he had in his youth anymore.

But according to the news, that linguist had been in war-torn areas.

He probably wasn’t facing life-threatening dangers for the first time.

"By the way, is the United Nations Peacekeeping Force just for show?" Lu Xuanyu casually criticized the peacekeeping forces.

More than ten years ago... was it 28 or 29 years ago, a social upheaval erupted in some country in Southeast Asia, and at that time, the peacekeeping forces maintained local social stability cleanly and efficiently.

But now, that African country had erupted in an even more horrifying tragedy.

Although the chaos in that African country lasted only a few days, the events of those days occupied the headlines for several weeks.

"Mr. Xiang must be feeling really sad," Lu Xuanyu murmured, "If he truly had over a decade of friendship with that linguist."

That country turned into hell, and the civilized society on this side, seemed as if they were in two different worlds.

Tragedies constantly occurred there, while people here were still speculating about what personal relations the obscure deceased might have had with certain wealthy individuals.

If it weren’t for this deceased person dying in that country, the "two worlds" seemed as if they would have no connection at all.

Lu Xuanyu couldn’t even remember the name of that country.

It was not until Lu Xuanyu started his recovery training that Xiang Shan appeared again.

Lu Xuanyu sensed a profound heaviness about Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan said, "Congratulations on completing the gene modification surgery, Mr. Lu."